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A pro Trump thread to balance the 154 anti Trump threads!

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Carpediemtoday · 29/01/2026 17:46

Thought I’d be brave and start a pro-Trump thread for a change, after all, there are so many anti-Trump ones , we need some balance!
I even tried commenting on an anti-Trump thread today… and wow, just kept being told to go away, my comments were not well received. Honestly, I feel honoured to feel as if I have been officially deported, what an achievement!😂

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Notonthestairs · 31/01/2026 15:06

expatme · 31/01/2026 14:10

This is a really interesting book about why they didn't. Worth reading.

https://www.thefallofroe.com

Thanks for the recommendation. I will take a look.

logicisall · 31/01/2026 15:14

RingoJuice · 31/01/2026 15:04

Automation and AI is going to decimate jobs and you want to bring in more workers?

Yeah, not working out so well in Canada. Doubt it will go any better in Spain with, what, 10% unemployment rate? Maybe worse?

Not everyone agrees with you.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/eliamdur/2025/05/24/ai-will-create-far-more-jobs-than-it-will-kill/

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Some types of jobs will disappear; others will be created.

BoyHowdy · 31/01/2026 15:26

RingoJuice · 31/01/2026 15:00

There’s nowhere that’s banned contraception. It’s not a Catholic country.

How about women pregnant with much wanted babies that experience complications? The baby cannot survive, but the woman dies unnecessarily, related to the hospitals’s inability to provide simple necessary reproductive care, by law.

This has already happened.

How about the young girls raped forced to go through with the pregnancy? I think from your earlier Epstein acceptance you’re not going to be too worried about this though…

Don’t worry, I’m not stupid enough to expect anything like compassion from you, but it’s good for other people to see again.

RingoJuice · 31/01/2026 15:26

logicisall · 31/01/2026 15:14

Not everyone agrees with you.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/eliamdur/2025/05/24/ai-will-create-far-more-jobs-than-it-will-kill/

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Some types of jobs will disappear; others will be created.

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Yeah and you may have a total worker mismatch because they’re just giving asylum randomly, not even trying to impose any standard or any skill requirements are they?

RingoJuice · 31/01/2026 15:28

BoyHowdy · 31/01/2026 15:26

How about women pregnant with much wanted babies that experience complications? The baby cannot survive, but the woman dies unnecessarily, related to the hospitals’s inability to provide simple necessary reproductive care, by law.

This has already happened.

How about the young girls raped forced to go through with the pregnancy? I think from your earlier Epstein acceptance you’re not going to be too worried about this though…

Don’t worry, I’m not stupid enough to expect anything like compassion from you, but it’s good for other people to see again.

I’m pro-choice but you don’t need to lie about the availability of contraception, that’s not the issue.

The major issue is that some doctors don’t want to expose themselves to legal trouble so don’t want to give an abortion until they are sure it’s not viable. Honestly total cowards.

BoyHowdy · 31/01/2026 15:31

RingoJuice · 31/01/2026 10:54

Let’s say that they have final orders of removal. They refuse to go (like many).

Is it still ‘abduction’ in your eyes? Is the solution, if they cross the border with kids, you have to let them stay?

In any case, I don’t view it as ‘abduction’ to place them in dedicated facilities where their cases will be heard. It is the correct process.

Let’s say that they have final orders of removal. They refuse to go (like many).

But this family and many of the families who we’re talking about, do not.

I mean, if we’re making shit up, we could pretend Trump isn’t all over the Epstein files and not already a convicted felon and sexual offender. But no need for that, because it doesn’t bother you,.

pointythings · 31/01/2026 15:31

The major issue is that some doctors don’t want to expose themselves to legal trouble so don’t want to give an abortion until they are sure it’s not viable. Honestly total cowards.

That's such an easy cop out. The cowardly doctors thing is how Savita Halappanavar died in the ROI. And guess what they did there?

They legalised abortion. Simple fix. Meanwhile your beloved MAGA are fully complicit in this endless raft of state abortion laws that (rightly) frighten doctors. How about, say, not putting in stupid laws criminalising a medical procedure?

logicisall · 31/01/2026 15:33

@RingoJuice , I would say that Canada's informed and adaptive immigration policy is working well for it.

Immigration is essential to our country’s economic success and growth. As Canada reopened following the pandemic, the needs of businesses were greater than the supply of workers available to support their recovery. We took decisive measures to attract some of the world’s best and brightest to study and work in Canada, and to integrate them into the economy quickly. This meant a faster economic recovery. It also meant that robust immigration helped prevent a recession, while contributing to Canada’s workforce.

Their economic need for labour has lessened, and in response they are pausing immigration to balance population growth.

2025–2027 Immigration Levels Plan: a plan that will pause population growth in the short term to achieve well-managed, sustainable growth in the long term. For the first time ever, the levels plan includes controlled targets for temporary residents, specifically international students and foreign workers, as well as for permanent residents.

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/news/2024/10/government-of-canada-reduces-immigration.html

Sunnyhappy · 31/01/2026 15:46

⚠️ Warning: If you have a very sensitive disposition, it might be best not to read this. I really hope this doesn’t cause too much distress or anxiety, but I’ve just found a page on the official White House website…published on January 20th...... OMG!

It lists “Trump’s 365 WINS IN 365 DAYS:
President Trump’s Return Marks a New Era of Success, Prosperity.”

https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2026/01/365-wins-in-365-days-president-trumps-return-marks-new-era-of-success-prosperity/

365 WINS IN 365 DAYS: President Trump’s Return Marks New Era of Success, Prosperity

One year ago today, President Donald J. Trump returned to office with a resounding mandate to restore prosperity, secure the border, rebuild American

https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2026/01/365-wins-in-365-days-president-trumps-return-marks-new-era-of-success-prosperity/

BoyHowdy · 31/01/2026 15:57

RingoJuice · 31/01/2026 15:28

I’m pro-choice but you don’t need to lie about the availability of contraception, that’s not the issue.

The major issue is that some doctors don’t want to expose themselves to legal trouble so don’t want to give an abortion until they are sure it’s not viable. Honestly total cowards.

Do you not understand that none of my point above refers to the availability of contraception?

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 31/01/2026 16:17

justasking111 · 31/01/2026 14:29

I don't see how you can avoid childbirth if you're pregnant.

How about abortion at six weeks, when there is nothing to speak of present in the uterus and the abortion is exceedingly unlikely to kill anyone? I don't go along with every sperm is sacred I mean sorry embryos are autonomous human beings from the moment of conception – or among exceptionally enlightened anti-abortioneers, implantation – because at six weeks in utero the collection of cells is not viable.

Until really quite recently a spontaneous abortion at six weeks was known as "a heavy period". Not "childbirth", because no actual child was involved. And if abortion is made illegal, having a miscarriage may also be illegal, unless you can prove absolutely that you did not have it deliberately. There are women in prison in the USA for having had a miscarriage, did you know?

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 31/01/2026 16:22

Sunnyhappy · 31/01/2026 15:46

⚠️ Warning: If you have a very sensitive disposition, it might be best not to read this. I really hope this doesn’t cause too much distress or anxiety, but I’ve just found a page on the official White House website…published on January 20th...... OMG!

It lists “Trump’s 365 WINS IN 365 DAYS:
President Trump’s Return Marks a New Era of Success, Prosperity.”

https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2026/01/365-wins-in-365-days-president-trumps-return-marks-new-era-of-success-prosperity/

Edited

I'm amazed that the stats are in to back some of those claims about crime: it usually takes a month or so to process the whole lot even in a small country like this one, and the USA is a vast place with scads of different jurisdictions to collect the data from.

RingoJuice · 31/01/2026 16:38

pointythings · 31/01/2026 15:31

The major issue is that some doctors don’t want to expose themselves to legal trouble so don’t want to give an abortion until they are sure it’s not viable. Honestly total cowards.

That's such an easy cop out. The cowardly doctors thing is how Savita Halappanavar died in the ROI. And guess what they did there?

They legalised abortion. Simple fix. Meanwhile your beloved MAGA are fully complicit in this endless raft of state abortion laws that (rightly) frighten doctors. How about, say, not putting in stupid laws criminalising a medical procedure?

well obviously that would be my preference too. But until we can get Texas’ act together, then doctors should do the right thing

logicisall · 31/01/2026 16:41

Sunnyhappy · 31/01/2026 15:46

⚠️ Warning: If you have a very sensitive disposition, it might be best not to read this. I really hope this doesn’t cause too much distress or anxiety, but I’ve just found a page on the official White House website…published on January 20th...... OMG!

It lists “Trump’s 365 WINS IN 365 DAYS:
President Trump’s Return Marks a New Era of Success, Prosperity.”

https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2026/01/365-wins-in-365-days-president-trumps-return-marks-new-era-of-success-prosperity/

Edited

I asked AI (ChatGPT) to fact check No. 55. Cut overdose deaths by 21% over last year, with overdose deaths declining each month since President Trump took office.

Is the decline directly linked to Trump’s presidency?
CDC and public-health experts do not attribute the decline to a single policy or administration. Multiple factors — such as increased access to naloxone (an overdose-reversal drug), expanded addiction treatment, changes in the drug supply, and other public-health responses — are likely contributing to the trend. Experts also emphasize that the decline began before 2025 and is driven by many complex, overlapping influences

Tut, tut, playing fast and loose with the truth, knowing that people can fact check the statements.
... or maybe it was just wishful thinking.

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 31/01/2026 16:42

RingoJuice · 31/01/2026 16:38

well obviously that would be my preference too. But until we can get Texas’ act together, then doctors should do the right thing

And the right thing is give an abortion to a woman whose defective pregnancy is killing her, and then go to prison for doing so.

RingoJuice · 31/01/2026 16:47

logicisall · 31/01/2026 15:33

@RingoJuice , I would say that Canada's informed and adaptive immigration policy is working well for it.

Immigration is essential to our country’s economic success and growth. As Canada reopened following the pandemic, the needs of businesses were greater than the supply of workers available to support their recovery. We took decisive measures to attract some of the world’s best and brightest to study and work in Canada, and to integrate them into the economy quickly. This meant a faster economic recovery. It also meant that robust immigration helped prevent a recession, while contributing to Canada’s workforce.

Their economic need for labour has lessened, and in response they are pausing immigration to balance population growth.

2025–2027 Immigration Levels Plan: a plan that will pause population growth in the short term to achieve well-managed, sustainable growth in the long term. For the first time ever, the levels plan includes controlled targets for temporary residents, specifically international students and foreign workers, as well as for permanent residents.

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/news/2024/10/government-of-canada-reduces-immigration.html

I would suggest you look beyond government propaganda. Their merit-based immigration policy (something I would actually have liked better than America’s chain migration policy) didn’t go all that smoothly.

Asset prices have gone through the roof (yes it happened in America, but not to the same extent) with hardly any wage rises. Particularly housing but also food costs and public services (apparently worse than the NHS which is kind of shocking)

Because students wanting to get a toehold into Canada abused the student loopholes, formerly respectable colleges became diploma mills. They didn’t bring the innovation promised, there was a huge skills mismatch—nobody needed, really, more DoorDashers, Tim Horton workers and Uber drivers …

Mjjj · 31/01/2026 16:51

RingoJuice · 31/01/2026 16:47

I would suggest you look beyond government propaganda. Their merit-based immigration policy (something I would actually have liked better than America’s chain migration policy) didn’t go all that smoothly.

Asset prices have gone through the roof (yes it happened in America, but not to the same extent) with hardly any wage rises. Particularly housing but also food costs and public services (apparently worse than the NHS which is kind of shocking)

Because students wanting to get a toehold into Canada abused the student loopholes, formerly respectable colleges became diploma mills. They didn’t bring the innovation promised, there was a huge skills mismatch—nobody needed, really, more DoorDashers, Tim Horton workers and Uber drivers …

I see Canada has a lot of Indian hatred now unfortunately.

Pallisers · 31/01/2026 16:51

RingoJuice · 31/01/2026 15:28

I’m pro-choice but you don’t need to lie about the availability of contraception, that’s not the issue.

The major issue is that some doctors don’t want to expose themselves to legal trouble so don’t want to give an abortion until they are sure it’s not viable. Honestly total cowards.

Yeah blame the doctors. Not the law that compels their behaviour. Such cowards being afraid of what the law says.

No one is lying about the availability of contraception so no idea where that is coming from (although Alito did say that Griswold and Obergfell were up for grabs too so stick around).

Anyway, I'm off . Couldn't be arsed arguing with ideological cruelty.

PinkLemonadee · 31/01/2026 16:54

@Carpediemtoday

Have you seen this? Still support the orange sack of sentient hate?

PinkLemonadee · 31/01/2026 16:55

PinkLemonadee · 31/01/2026 16:54

@Carpediemtoday

Have you seen this? Still support the orange sack of sentient hate?

@Carpediemtoday

A pro Trump thread to balance the 154  anti Trump threads!
BoyHowdy · 31/01/2026 16:56

Pallisers · 31/01/2026 16:51

Yeah blame the doctors. Not the law that compels their behaviour. Such cowards being afraid of what the law says.

No one is lying about the availability of contraception so no idea where that is coming from (although Alito did say that Griswold and Obergfell were up for grabs too so stick around).

Anyway, I'm off . Couldn't be arsed arguing with ideological cruelty.

I feel like I need a shower after wading into the sewage of these threads.

BoyHowdy · 31/01/2026 16:57

PinkLemonadee · 31/01/2026 16:55

@Carpediemtoday

I can hazard a guess. It will be something along the lines of ‘but illegal immigrants wahhhh’

PinkLemonadee · 31/01/2026 16:57

PinkLemonadee · 31/01/2026 16:55

@Carpediemtoday

@Carpediemtoday

A pro Trump thread to balance the 154  anti Trump threads!
BoyHowdy · 31/01/2026 16:57

RingoJuice · 31/01/2026 16:47

I would suggest you look beyond government propaganda. Their merit-based immigration policy (something I would actually have liked better than America’s chain migration policy) didn’t go all that smoothly.

Asset prices have gone through the roof (yes it happened in America, but not to the same extent) with hardly any wage rises. Particularly housing but also food costs and public services (apparently worse than the NHS which is kind of shocking)

Because students wanting to get a toehold into Canada abused the student loopholes, formerly respectable colleges became diploma mills. They didn’t bring the innovation promised, there was a huge skills mismatch—nobody needed, really, more DoorDashers, Tim Horton workers and Uber drivers …

I would suggest you look beyond government propaganda.

Oh my goodness, haha, now that gave me a laugh.